The Critical Development Studies Handbook: Tools for Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745331238 ISBN 13: 9780745331232

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2011

Synopsis

This handbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the groundbreaking and interdisciplinary new field of critical development studies.

Each short chapter is written by a well-known specialist and provides a succinct discussion of central issues in the field. It provides a critical perspective informed by a belief in the need for substantive change and for genuine, lasting progress in international development.

This will be an important resource for all development scholars, teachers, students, researchers and activists who want to practice Development Studies with a critical edge.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Veltmeyer is Professor of Sociology and International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada and Adjunct Professor of Development Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. He is the co-author of Social Movements and State Power (Pluto, 2005).

Review:

"Tools for Change is an extraordinary achievement: there is simply nothing like it on the market, in terms of the scope, depth, and the quality and consistency of the contributions included in this book. This is as close to a critical or heterodox textbook in development studies as we are ever likely to get." -- Professor Alfredo Saad Filho, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0745331238
• ISBN 13: 9780745331232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Veltmeyer Henry